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Fiction
Nancy Culpepper
Bobbie Ann Mason (July)
The author of In Country pens this novel in stories following a woman
from her childhood in the South to adulthood in the North.
The Burning
Thomas Legendre (July)
A young economist marries a Vegas blackjack dealer and takes her along
to his new job as a professor.
Left Bank
Kate Muir (July)
A satire about a media couple (TV personality/ movie star) whose
daughter goes missing at a Euro Disney-type theme park.
One Mississippi
Mark Childress (July)
A white teenage boy moves from Indiana to 1970s Mississippi and falls in
love with a local black girl (who just happens to believe she's
Caucasian).
Cellophane
Marie Arana (July)
In this debut novel set in the Amazon, an engineer obsessed with opening
a paper factory moves his family to a remote town in the jungle.
Calling Out
Rae Meadows (June)
Kicked out by her boyfriend, a New Yorker moves to Salt Lake City — and gets work with an escort service frequented by Mormons.
The Keep
Jennifer Egan (August)
Two cousins team up to renovate an Eastern European castle — and find themselves reliving an awful event from their childhood.
Nonfiction
Agincourt
Juliet Barker (June)
Barker dissects the famous battle (you know, the one from Shakespeare's
Henry V) in which English archers were outnumbered by the French five to
one.
Feeding the Monster
Seth Mnookin (July)
The Vanity Fair writer and author of Hard News (about the New York Times/Jayson Blair scandal) takes an inside look at '04 World Series champs
the Boston Red Sox.
The Detonators
Chad Millman (June)
In 1916, German spies blew up a munitions depot on an island near the
Statue of Liberty. Millman investigates this long-forgotten incident.
Ghost Hunters
Deborah Blum (August)
The true story of how William James — psychologist, philosopher, and
brother of author Henry James — embarked on a search for the afterlife.
Burning Rainbow Farm
Dean Kuipers (July)
A pair of marijuana advocates are killed in a standoff with state police
and the FBI.
Babylon by Bus
Ray LeMoine and Jeff Neumann with Donovan Webster (August)
For years, two guys sell ''Yankees Suck'' T-shirts at Fenway. Then they
decide to go work in Baghdad with the coalition forces. Sounds like a
story to us.
Paperbacks
13 Steps Down
Ruth Rendell (June)
Rendell, whose deserved acclaim grows each year,
dazzles with a suspense novel about an inept killer and his landlady.
Willful Creatures
Aimee Bender (August)
The imaginative author (The Girl in the Flammable Skirt) delivers a new
book of surreal (a boy with keys for fingers!) short stories.
Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk (July)
From Turkey's star writer, a memoir that blends an account of his early
years with a meditation on his country's capital, where East and West
have met and struggled for years.
Crossworld
Marc Romano (June)
If the documentary Wordplay doesn't sate your crossword-puzzle fetish
this summer, pick up this literary ode to the obsession.
Confessions of a Memory Eater
Pagan Kennedy (July)
A historian reconnects with a college friend who offers him the chance
to try an experimental drug that allows users to relive the best parts
of their past.
